1. I stayed up while friends slept, and melancholy
Returned to me with the night, grief in my heart and weariness.

2. And memories of Malik stirred sorrow within me
So I did not rest except with a heart filled with dread.

3. Whenever a teardrop was held back after a teardrop
It refused and a tear flowed as well as sobs.

4. Remembering a beloved after tranquility I recalled him
Though the rising of stars was nearing.

5. When my eyes were sleepless, doves cooing in the branches
Reminded me of him.

6. Their warbling ignited a blaze in me for Malik
And in my chest from passion were ruptures.

7. As if I never sat with him, never touched for a night
I see him, we never woke while together.

8. A youth who never lived a day blamed
And around him were meadows that grazed him.

9. He has followers almost as if people know
He is a summer and spring to those who draw near.